I've never liked sendmail so I've never even attempted to try it. However, this page seems to cover virtual hosting with sendmail pretty well. You can still use dovecot with sendmail but you would have to tune it to how you set sendmail up.

Hi, linuxfast!
I cannot create a new e-mail account. The command adduser is not working. I use SUSE 9.3, postfix mail server and have logged in as root.
Maybe there are other ways how to create an e-mail account?
Thank you!

Hi, linuxfast!
I cannot create a new e-mail account. The command adduser is not working. I use SUSE 9.3, postfix mail server and have logged in as root.
Maybe there are other ways how to create an e-mail account?
Thank you!

I have followed these instructions but on page two of this tutorial I am not certain what to do below:

Tutorial instructions:

This is exactly what we set up in Part One. OK, so now we've got dovecot taking the user to the correct mail directory, now we still need to authenticate them. Line 23 tells us we want to support two types of authentication methods: plain and digest-md5. Plain is what every client under the sun supports, so we'll go with that. The digest portion doesn't harm anything sitting there and if your client supports it, then by all means, use it!

Finally, on lines 24 and 25 we see a userdb file and passdb file. Think of these as a second /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. The format of these files goes like this:

That encrypted password is an MD5 hash of the word 'test'. mkpasswd is a great utility for generating MD5 passwords. The 1000:1000 corresponds to the uid and gid of the "virtual" user we created in Part One. The home directory includes everything but the word before the @ in the email address.

My confusion is what to call these files and are they just plain *.txt files. I am using Mandrake 9.2 so I will be using the Apache password utility to generate passwords.

Do you have the passwd command? It should produce the correct passwords.

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yes but how do i get at the passwords? they show up in the /etc/passwd file as just '*'? i would be curious to know if we can access this any other way so you can see more than just the asterisk.

i just solved my difficulty another way though.

the md5 command (or any of the other stuff i listed earlier) are generated in what it turns out is a PLAIN-MD5 scheme. there is in fact a whole list of these schemes on the dovecot site:http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication

so i just generated test using this on my freebsd system (any of the aforementioned ones give the same thing):
md5 -s test

got this as output:
MD5 ("test") = 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

and put it in according to their instructions in the passwd file like this:prad@yourcybercourt.info:{PLAIN-MD5}098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

so using {SCHEME} you can use a variety of password generation schemes like SHA or DES etc

the dovecot site is pretty helpful - i should have realized this before wandering over half the internet